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James Agee in Context : New Literary, Visual, Cultural, and Historical Essays / edited by Michael A. Lofaro.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agee, James, 1909-1955--Criticism and interpretation.
- Agee, James.
- Agee, James, 1909-1955--Influence.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville, Tennessee : The University of Tennessee Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "This collection of new essays exploring the life and cultural significance of James Agee grew largely from the scholarship of The Works of James Agee series under the editorial guidance of Michael A. Lofaro. The present volume's eleven essays concern Agee's relation to authors as diverse as Wright Morris, John Dos Passos, William T. Vollmann, Stephen Crane, and Ernest Hemingway. Furthermore, it sheds fresh light on Agee's career as an artist, critic, romantic and modernist, reviewer of books, film, and photography, journalist for Fortune magazine, and, uniquely, explores the author's personal writings through the lens of his father's life"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A writer's view of James Agee, Walker Evans, and Wright Morris : three "ways of seeing" / David Madden
- The case against language : Agee, Dos Passos, and modernist amalgamation / Michael Jacobs
- James Agee's legacy of cultural repudiation / Jeffrey Folks
- Confessions of inadequacy : the inescapable influence of Let us now praise famous men on William T. Vollmann's Poor people / Andrew Crooke
- "In every detail it has edge" : James Agee reviews the South (1927-1948) / Michael A. Lofaro
- Stephen Crane through the admiring lens of James Agee / Jeffrey Couchman
- "This lyrical image" : James Agee on the photography and film of Helen Levitt / Caroline Blinder
- Cock and bull stories : Luce's Fortune magazine features Hemingway and Agee on the business of bloodsport / Michael A. Lofaro
- You cruise, you lose : a panoramic view of Agee's "Havana cruise" / Paul Ashdown
- A well-known postman : James Agee's father before A death in the family / Paul F. Brown
- "Tidmore and the Negro" : an unpublished chapter from Let us now praise famous men / Hugh Davis.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lofaro, Michael A. James Agee in Context
- ISBN:
- 9781621907435
- OCLC:
- 1374425326
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